Spritualis vitae compendiosa regula.

Accession number: 
PML 28453
Author: 
Cherubino, da Siena, frate, -1484.
Published: 
Impressa in la citade di Ferrara : [Printer of Datus, 'Elegantiolae' (H 5994)(Statius Gallicus)], nel Anno MccccLxxxi del mese di Agosto [August 1481].
Description: 
[52] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1931.
Notes: 

Author sometimes mistaken for Cherubino da Spoleto.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r: VENERABILIS IN CHRISTO PATRIS FRATRIS CHERVBINO DE SPOLETO ORDINIS MINORVM SPRITVALIS VITAE COMPENDIOSA REGVLA Quedam Hec est.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [7]/6v: Ad laude di Dio et de la gloriosa vergine Maria questa opera a stata impressa i[n] la citade di ferrara nel Anno MccccLxxxi del mese di Agosto.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-5⁸ 6-7⁶]: 52 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 15 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century quarter calf, with sides red paper sides, over paper boards (21.5 x 16 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant Title: 

Regola della vita spiritual

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks; red filigree penwork on blue initial (leaf [1]/1r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified (Martini?) English catalogue description (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Aug. 1931.
Classification: 
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